Do e-cigarettes help people quit tobacco or lure in young smokers?

State and federal regulators can’t seem to make up their minds on that one yet. As Yahoo Finance reported,

“E-cigs are becoming increasingly popular with former smokers and celebrities who are being paid to endorse the products on national television. But do not call an e-cigarette user a ‘smoker’ unless you’re looking for trouble. ‘We don’t smoke,’ says Talia Eisenberg, correcting a reporter’s observation. ‘We vape’ (as in vaporize).

” … The Food and Drug Administration does not currently regulate electronic cigarettes but is under pressure to include e-cigarettes as part of the $90 billion U.S. tobacco market. An announcement could be made as soon as next week on whether the government agency will impose regulations on e-cigarette advertising, ingredients and sales to minors. Forty attorneys general wrote a letter to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg in September urging the agency to consider ‘immediate regulatory oversight’ of e-cigarettes because they ‘are appealing to youth’ and there are no standards ‘ensuring the safety of the ingredients’.”